Apparatus for bottling carbonated liquids



D. HUMPHREY. APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING CARBONATED Ll cums.

APPLICATION FILED JULY-24,1918.

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DAVID HUMP-HREY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING CARBONA'IED LIQUIDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed July 24, 1918. Serial No. 246,445.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID HUMPHREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyaho-ga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Apparatus for Bottling Carbonated Liquids, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a process of and apparatus for bottling carbonated liquids, all substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the single figure is a somewhat diagrammatic view of a complete apparatus for making and bottling the beverages in a continuous operation, and in which all the essential parts are shown in working relations to practise the process.

Thus, as a first step, the water from any available source is first run through a suitable filter 2, and delivered thence to a receiving tank 3 which has a float valve control 4 at its entrance and discharges by a pipe at its bottom into a cooler coil 5' and from there comes under the control of force ump 6.

On the other or syrup line I show a syrup receptacle 7 with a pipe connection to supply tank 8 having a float controlled valve 9 and from which tank the syrup passes through suitable pipe connections first to cooler 10 and thence to force pump 12.

Pipes 13 and 14, respectively, lead from the said pumps to the mixer column 15, and through which the mixture is forced to the carbonating machine 16. This machine is of a common and well known type and has a carbonating tank 18 connected therewith by pipe 19.

From the machine 16 the carbonated liquid is conducted in a more or less frothy state to a plurality of liquid cooling receptacles 20 and 21, in this instance, both of which are alike and alike supplied through the pipe 22. The water coils 23 about these receptacles in the tanks containing the same have open pipe connection wit each other and with the coil 24 about the supply tank 25 in or at the top of the bottling machine 30.

The carbonated liquid in the said receptacles 20 and 21 flows from the said receptacles by pipe connection 28 from the bottom thereof to the mixer 29, and thence through a cooling coil 31 by pipe 32 to the machine supply tank 25 through the stand pipe connection 33 entering the bottom of said tank. It has also been found advantageous to have a carbonating or gas supply tank 34 arranged to supply fresh gas, as may be needed, to tank 25, to avoid frothing or foaming of the liquid therein, andsuitable pressure regulators and automatically controlled valves are provided to control the inlet of gas and also the supply of liquid to tank 25, so as to maintain a given level of liquid in said tank. These details are not claimed herein, but a float valve control 31 for the liquid and a pressure regulator 32 are shown.

The bottling machine 30 may be of any.

well-known construction and no novelty is claimed for the machine other than is involved in the combined gas pressure and liquid chamber 25- at its top, whereby a gascharged liquid may be delivered into the bottles through the usual filling pipes 35 of the machine which has suitable cut-01f and control valves as usual, and such valves are also understood to be present in the several pipe connections between the tanks and receptacles and other pipev connected parts here and there in the system.

In operation, the water and syrup are pumped into the carbonating machine and the mixture is highly charged with gas, leaving the machine in a frothy condition through pipe 22. This frothy mixture then is liquefied in the cooling receptacles 20 and 21 and remains under gas pressure throughout its travel through. mixer 29 and pipe 32- into the supply tank 25 Where a constant pressure is maintained on the liquid and the liquid further charged by the gas 'taken from gas tank 34. The charged liquid is drawn ofl" into the bottles through pipes 35 and is more uniformly and thoroughly mixed and makes a smoother and more palatable beverage than where the charging takes place after introduction of the liquid in the bottles as heretofore; The filling of bottles with a syrup mixture which has been charged before introducing it into the bottles has been regarded as impracticable heretofore owing to the frothy condition of the mixture when so charged, but by my method of mixing, charging and liquefying and supplying the charged liquid to the bottles under a sustained gas pressure in the system, the steps of carbonating the liquid first and then bottling the same becomes feasible and practicable.

What I claim is:

1. The method herein described of preparing carbonated liquid for bottling which consists in first separately cooling the water and the syrup and then forcing the liquids together under pressure into a mixer and carbonating the same to cause excessive foaming, then cooling and liquefying the carbonated mixture and subjecting the same to repeated admixture'under pressure in advance and as a preparation for bottling the 7 same. 2. Means for making a carbonated mixture with water and syrup as ingredients sbon ating the same comprising means for separately cooling the Water and the syrup, a pump for each ingredient and a mixer into which the mgredients are forced by pressure, means for carbonating and converting the mixture into a frothy conditiom'means for cooling and liquefying the frothy mixture, and a mixer for the cooled liquid and'for further carpreparatory for bottling.

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, this 13th day of July, 1918.

DAVID HUMPHREY. 

